Winter only officially starts today in the Netherlands and we would like to thank the people of South Africa for looking after it for the first two-thirds of December.
The South African government has announced plans to make the country a global leader in poor weather storage for colder countries. “We have already signed an MoU with Finland, which will see most of their March weather taking place in the greater Bloemfontein area.”
One of Europe’s largest weather exchange services, AutumnTransplants™, which transports inclement weather in large cooling units aboard container ships, has announced that it will be opening a major weather handling and slush puppy production facility near Oudtshoorn.
The Scottish Ministry of Rain has paid an undisclosed sum to ensure that some of its summer rain will fall as extra cloudbursts in the Highveld area in late January and early February. The ministry has warned that these showers may contain traces of sleet, hail and snow.
#LadyAmstel and her lover thank you for your shivering service, South African friends.
#LadyAmstel and her lover thank the people of South Africa for these wonderful BonusRays™, their excellent sense of humour and their many comments, likes and retweets.

(Some of these rays will be donated to the people of Iceland, who have not seen sun since summer of 1927.)
The mountain kingdom of Andorra today announced a snow exchange treaty with Lesotho, which will reduce the impact of winter sports activities on the tiny European nation. Lesotho will henceforth have snow year-round and Andorran investors have already purchased several slopes.

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10 May
Cees the Stone Age Man, who is considered to be the first North Hollander, lived in 2500 BC and mainly subsisted on a diet of deep-fried take-aways.
In this reconstruction, he is shown checking the menu in a snackbar.
This look is still very popular in Amsterdam, which remains true to its cultural roots despite outside influences.
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23 Apr
It is a great tragedy that movies like #SixMinutesToMidnight still get made, mainly because there are many more worthwhile, important and fascinating stories to be told about WWII, set in the dark forests and deep valleys of a terrible world far from The Little Island Kingdom.
Thirteen hours later and I’m still seething at the way this cardboard-cut-out, shitely-scripted rush job not only jeopardised my love for Eddie Izzard and Judi Dench, but also took a potentially powerful story and reduced it to a panto version of Murder at Hollycock Manor.
Here’s a story set in the summer of 1942. The fact that you’re looking at this intimate snapshot of six teenagers, basking on a flat roof in Amsterdam, means at least one of them survived the war and saved the picture. Image
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4 Mar
In May 1943, a 20-year-old Jewish woman was arrested in Amsterdam and transported more than 1000 kilometres by train to be murdered, because the man who had given her refuge was betrayed to the Nazis by his vindictive ex-wife. The man survived Sachsenhausen and Neuengamme, but...
...died at the age of 45 in 1955. The vindictive ex remarried after the war and lived happily (presumably) ever after until the summer of 1981, when she passed away at the venerable age of 73.

If nothing else, writing non-fiction will teach you there is no such thing as karma.
What interesting to note is that the policeman on desk duty reported the arrest in detail, not only including dates of birth, addresses and full names of all involved, but also the service numbers of the arresting officers, who will have known what fate awaited the young woman.
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6 Feb
Dutch people having a meltdown over snow that isn’t falling as forecast is probably the Dutchest thing I have ever seen.
And I have seen a great many Dutch things in my days in this here polder.
Dutch friends, listen, I think we need to accept that our snow is currently falling in England. They need it more than we do. Let’s just try to accept this and move on.
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14 Oct 20
With the US presidential election on the way, I decided to read up on the rules of democratic engagement, using the instruction manual for the AR-15 assault rifle. The results were as follows:

SEMI-AUTOMATIC DEMOCRAZY™
10 USER & SAFETY PRECAUTIONS

#Election2020
1. SEMI-AUTOMATIC DEMOCRAZY™ has been tooled to perfection, fully tested and inspected with care, but please ensure that the sights are set correctly, so that you do not hit random targets.
2. SEMI-AUTOMATIC DEMOCRAZY™ is not a toy. Never leave it unattended, as it may be used improperly or recklessly.
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2 Sep 20
Just got back from one of the weirdest walks ever! As I was passing through the strip of woodland that runs alongside the river, I heard someone groaning. So I thought: probably just a couple of guys using the last breath of summer for some outdoor, lunchtime sex.
When you've lived in Amsterdam for 30 years, you see some weird shit, including elderly ex-hippy neighbours having sex on the balcony, with Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" playing full-bawl and their mom shouting from the balcony above, that everyone can hear them.
Anyway, I rolled my eyes and kept walking, but then it sounded like the groaning was coming from above, as if there was a speaker up in a tree. So I looked up to see where it was coming from, but the sun was in my eyes, so I had to go back to look from a different angle.
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